Reading the NYT and listening to Wiscon panels

both remind me of how opposed het feminist and lesbian agends can be.  The book about girl pilots in WWII who befriend each other...  especially if you know anything about how freeing service to their country was for dykes of a certain generation, such as Mary Renault... ending up just a smart book about the power of female friendship, it *is* like Neverland. 

In that "you will never be represented properly because our needs come first, always" kind of way.  I hate listening to how disappointing it is for a subtextual situation to become textual canonical lesbianism.  Will we ever move past Xena wank, really?

The vendor selling X:WP merch at Wiscon was kind of a throwback.  But it was refreshing, nonetheless.  What kickass at least arguably lesbian heroine has surpassed her, truly?  Plus it was "Bitter Sweet" X n G.  Still stunning.

Here's half of what  I'm crabbing about: Rowr.  We're looking for diametrically opposed experiences from that rare book with no cute-boy (or Alpha male) romance...   I get it, but I can't agree you should win every time in books that sell wide.  It's privilege and power.  I usually don't give a dime, but this stupid electoral ploy has gotten my dander up.  Must you claim exclusive rights to evrything, particularly our subcultural subversive liberatory histories?